News

2011

• NEH announces $21 million in awards and offers for 215 humanities projects
• National Endowment for the Humanities Invites You To Preview 54 Cutting-Edge Digital Humanities Projects
• NEH Grantees Win Honors
• Remembering 9/11
• NEH and NSF Award $3.9 Million to Preserve Languages Threatened With Extinction
• NEH announces $40 million in awards and offers for 249 humanities projects
• Read how newspapers covered the Battle of Bull Run
  150 years ago with headlines from Chronicling America.
• LEACH COMPLETES CIVILITY TOUR.
• NEH and ALA award "Let's Talk About It: Making Sense of the Civil War" grants to 65 public, academic, and community college libraries
• Experts Brief Congress on Humanities and National Security. Panelists explain the role of cultural understanding in creating informed, effective policy
• President Obama Appoints Five New Members to the National Council on the Humanities.
• NEH supported a new film titled Freedom Riders. Read about filming the documentary, watch the trailer, read about a recent screening at the U.S. Capitol, and see photos of Freedom Riders at Washington events.
• NEH announces $18.8 million in awards and offers for 216 humanities projects
• Drew Gilpin Faust, Civil War historian and President of Harvard University, will deliver the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 2 in Washington, DC.
• 2010 National Humanities Medals: Three Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, the founder of the Library of America series, and the former president of the American Council of Learned Societies are among this year’s recipients.
• NEH supports a novel “encyclodictionary” of the New Urbanism to bring a common vocabulary to urban planning and design.
• Numerous NEH programs and projects have supported research and educational resources about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Celebrated historian Allison Blakely of Boston University has been appointed to the National Council on the Humanities (January 10, 2011).
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